DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT POSITION

This is a tertiary referral center for all patients with heart disease from all over the country and neighboring countries as well. The infrastructure consists of 2 operating rooms with state of the art equipment and a 14 bedded post operative ICU and a step down ICU. The cardiological backup is strong with 5 cardiologists,, a cath lab including DSA and 2 color dopplers. The Department of cardiovascular surgery in this hospital is now one of the leading cardiovascular centers in this country dealing with the entire spectrum of cardiovascular diseases including adults with coronary and valvular heart disease with special emphasis on babies with congenital heart repairs. The unit specializes in complex repairs in neonates and infants and is one of the very few units in this country where such kind of surgery is undertaken with world- class results. We currently perform an average of 6 heart operations a day out of which 4-5 are open hearts.

OPERATIVE EXPERIENCE :

Independently performed over 16,000 heart operations

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

Ours is one of the leading paediatric cardiac surgical centers in the country. Extensive experience in all varieties of complex congenital heart operations including arterial switches in infancy, repair of TAPVR, common AV canal etc and in the use of homograft conduits,repair of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

Large experience in Coronary artery bypass grafting including reoperations and extensive use of arterial grafts

Currently doing over 95% of CABGs off-pump.

Use of artificial hearts as a bridge to transplantation and recovery.

Extensive experience in ventricular remodeling for LV aneurysms.

SATELLITE CENTERS ESTABLISHED :

1.Krishna Heart center,Cuddalore,Tamil Nadu
We have done over 250 Coronary bypass procedures in this rural set up with no mortality and over 5000 cath lab procedures in this center serving a rural populace.

2. Pondicherry Heart foundation: Established last year, we are doing around 3-5 heart operations a week and the work is likely to increase with time as more staff are recruited.

3.Tirupur Heart Institute: Open heart programme started recently.

4. Ongoing surgical programmes started with our expertise in Nairobi,Kenya and Dhaka,Bangladesh.

2. Balakrishnan KR, Parvathy U.

3. Kumar RK, Balakrishnan KR.

Influence of lumen shape and vessel geometry on plaque stresses: possible role in the increased vulnerability of a remodelled vessel and the “shoulder” of a plaque.
Heart. 2005 Nov;91(11):1459-65. Epub 2005 Mar 17.
PMID: 15774611 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

2: Balakrishnan KR, Parvathy U.

3: Kumar RK, Balakrishnan KR.

Influence of lumen shape and vessel geometry on plaque stresses: possible role in the
increased vulnerability of a remodelled vessel and the “shoulder” of a plaque.
Heart. 2005 Nov;91(11):1459-65. Epub 2005 Mar 17.
PMID: 15774611 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]